Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearse slowly proceeded along a three-mile route to .the cemetery, thousands of blossoms were showered upon it. and the crowds roared: "Long live Toral! Long live Christ the King...
...Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
...shorten a long tale, the chauffeur was arrested, confessed that he had forged Prince Stirby's signature, vowed that he had smuggled the $36,000 to confederates outside Rumania, Among the many bitter -enemies of Prince Barbu Stirby the charge was heard, last week, that he was probably his chauffeur's confederate...
...works in the attic of five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room...
...discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down over...